Roberts v. City of Boston

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Roberts_v._City_of_Boston
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gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:law
gptkbp:citation gptkb:59_Mass._198
gptkbp:date 1849
gptkbp:decision segregation upheld
gptkbp:defendant gptkb:City_of_Boston
gptkbp:fullName gptkb:Sarah_C._Roberts_v._The_City_of_Boston
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Roberts v. City of Boston
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Brown_v._Board_of_Education
gptkb:Plessy_v._Ferguson
gptkbp:judge gptkb:Massachusetts_Supreme_Judicial_Court
gptkb:Lemuel_Shaw
gptkbp:location gptkb:Boston,_Massachusetts
gptkbp:numberOfIssues racial segregation in public schools
gptkbp:plaintiff gptkb:Sarah_C._Roberts
gptkbp:relatedLegislation gptkb:Massachusetts_law_banning_school_segregation_(1855)
gptkbp:represents gptkb:Charles_Sumner
gptkb:Robert_Morris
gptkbp:result Court ruled that separate schools were constitutional under Massachusetts law
gptkbp:significance first legal challenge to school segregation in the United States
gptkbp:subject school desegregation
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Lemuel_Shaw
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6